New IN OLD CHICAGO on DVD
July 8th, 2005 by Andre Soares
At his informative Alice Faye site, George Ulrich reports that "Fox Video has finally restored In Old Chicago and it will be out on DVD August 9. Approximately 15 minutes of footage was cut when the film was re-released in the 1940s. Most of us have never seen the complete film. This is our first new footage of Alice since Hidden Hollywood."
One of the biggest stars launched by Darryl F. Zanuck’s 20th Century-Fox, Alice Faye was the studio’s top (adult*) female attraction from the mid-1930s to the early 1940s, when Betty Grable became the favorite at the U.S. box office. (*Shirley Temple was the top female Fox attraction throughout the second half of the 1930s.)
Adapted to the screen by Sonya Levien and Lamar Trotti (from Niven Bush’s story "We the O’Learys"), and directed by Henry King, In Old Chicago (1937) stars Faye, Tyrone Power, Don Ameche, Best Supporting Actress Academy Award-winner Alice Brady, and a sweet cow who sets the whole corrupt city on fire.
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Quiz Answer: Tin Pan Alley (1940). Jack Oakie and John Payne were the two men in their lives. Walter Lang directed. Additionally, Faye and Grable had cameos in the 1944 war comedy Four Jills in a Jeep.
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